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Make Friends and Influence their Mobile Devices (remotely!)

Sharing videos and pics among a close-knit group of friends, family, coworkers or lovers is not only a lot of fun, it’s part of a trend that we’ve seen since mobile sharing became easier than ever.

The proliferation of social sharing with apps like SnapChat among younger users and now even college students, shows that the junior set are not necessarily jumping to the world’s largest social network to serve their friend-to-friend sharing needs.

Along the same lines, Taiwan-based software company, Piddas21, recently emerged with RemotePlay, a photo, document, music and video sharing app that allows users to connect with friends and then share content with them all at the same moment. With the autoplay option, you can make a song or video play on your friends’ devices instantly and then close the file whenever you desire.

The system allows you to share with several devices at once across different devices—like using an iPhone to send a video to friends who are using Android tablets and phones. A Windows 8 version is also in the works.

If close connection and sharing between groups of friends outside of the Facebook realm is what’s attractive to younger users (and any other groups of friends or coworkers), RemotePlay could catch on.

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